# Here you'll see some basic commands to start working with borg. # Note: This teaser screencast was made with borg version 1.1.0 – older or newer borg versions may behave differently. # But let's start. # First of all, you can always get help: borg help # These are a lot of commands, so better we start with a few: # Let's create a repo on an external drive… borg init --encryption=repokey /media/backup/borgdemo # This uses the repokey encryption. You may look at "borg help init" or the online doc at https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/ for other modes. # So now, let's create our first (compressed) backup. borg create --stats --progress --compression lz4 /media/backup/borgdemo::backup1 Wallpaper # That's nice, so far. # So let's add a new file… echo "new nice file" > Wallpaper/newfile.txt borg create --stats --progress --compression lz4 /media/backup/borgdemo::backup2 Wallpaper # Wow, this was a lot faster! # Notice the "Deduplicated size" for "This archive"! # Borg recognized that most files did not change and deduplicated them. # But what happens, when we move a dir and create a new backup? mv … borg create --stats --progress --compression lz4 /media/backup/borgdemo::backup3 Wallpaper # Still quite fast… # But when you look at the "deduplicated file size" again, you see that borg also recognized that only the dir and not the files changed in this backup. # Now lets look into a repo. borg list /media/backup/borgdemo # You'll see a list of all backups. # You can also use the same command to look into an archive. But we better filter the output here: borg list /media/backup/borgdemo::backup3 | grep 'deer.jpg' # Oh, we found our picture. Now extract it… mv Wallpaper Wallpaper.orig borg extract /media/backup/borgdemo::backup3 # And check that it's the same: diff -s Wallpaper/deer.jpg Wallpaper.orig/deer.jpg # And, of course, we can also create remote repos via ssh when borg is setup there. This command creates a new remote repo in a subdirectory called "demo": borg init --encryption=repokey borgdemo@remoteserver.example:./demo # Easy, isn't it? That's all you need to know for basic usage. # If you want to see more, have a look at the screencast showing the "advanced usage". # In any case, enjoy using borg!